Malawi Love Encounters Breakthrough
I had some incredible breakthrough at the beginning of this month. We were headed from Blantyre, Malawi to Lilongwe, Malawi for our P Squad Africa Debrief. I had gotten on the bus, found a seat in the very front (I get motion sick) and put my headphones on while I remembered the past month. I thought of our host family who we already missed , Loma, Jefta and Michelle. I thought about the crusades, the remote African villages and all of the people we had met. It was a crazy life experience which I will never forget.
But I knew that something was holding me back from deeply experiencing all that God had for me on the race. I knew that for the past 5 months I really hadn’t felt like myself. I wasn’t my normal personality, I let little things bug me a lot, I was kind of a loner, I just was not myself at all. I started praying about it and God started talking.
God speaks to me a lot through music and that day was no exception.
I had just downloaded Switch foot’s Beautiful Letdown cd, which was always one of my favorite cds. God had used that music to bring healing in the past and He did it again. There is a song called 24 and a quote in it that says, “I’m not coping out when you’re raising the dead in me.� That’s when God hit me. For the past 5 months He had been picking out every dead piece of me. He dug in every crevice of me and picked out the dead.
WHAT?!
With that revelation God has brought me true freedom. Now I not only feel like I’m back but I feel better then ever. On that bus ride He had finished picking out the dead and He filled me with freedom and joy overflowing. It was so beautiful.
Laura “Hephzibah�
